Captain's Fury

Captain's Fury is the fourth book in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series. I reviewed its predecessor, Cursor's Fury, earlier; here, I'm just going to offer a few disjointed comments on this book and the series as a whole.

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In the Shadow of the Law

I've just begun reading In the Shadow of the Law, by Kermit Roosevelt. It's a legal thriller; Roosevelt is a law professor and a former lawyer. (He is not the Kermit Roosevelt whose death in WWI devastated Theodore Roosevelt; nor is he the Kermit Roosevelt who engineered the 1953 coup in Iran against Mohammed Mossadegh. Beyond that, I know nothing.) I may, after I've finished it, give a review, but one bit deserves mention.

The scene involves Katja Phillips, a junior associate at a certain law firm. One of the partners, discussing their current case, explains the concept of "securitizing receivables" to her. He does this with gusto, comparing the man who came up with the idea to scientists like Galileo and Einstein, discoverers of the counter-intuitive. After he finishes his explanation, Katja looks at him for a moment.

Very possibly, she thought, this man is insane.

That just struck me funny; I think I like her.